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I'm sitting on my front step
Waiting for you to walk by with your friends
You look up at me the lights form
Smile sweet that made me skin
Jump out all that the way you do
It's like no feeling I could express
Oh sitting up here oh this little kid
You look like an angel
I fall so hard inside the idea of you
That's why with you can't say what I mean
Wanna stay but I think I'm getting outta here
I fall so hard inside the idea of you
I stumble falling
Front of you and all your cool friends
You pick me up you brush me off I grin
But you know I wanna disappear
One day when you fall for me girl
You know I know it's gonna come
I'm not gonna brush you off no way
And I'm not gonna pull your hair
I fall so hard inside the idea of you
That's why with you can't say what I mean
Wanna stay but I think I'm getting outta here
I fall so hard inside the idea of you
Oh yeah
It's something
It's a game I play
Inside myself
But you goin'
But you watching me
Knowing til myself oh I playing
Like you're sitting there
And you hold my
Til I fall asleep
And I wake up
And I find out
You're gone gone gone yeah
I fall so hard inside the idea of you
That's why with you can't say what I mean
Wanna stay but I think I'm getting outta here
I fall so hard inside the idea of you
I stumble falling
Front of you and all your cool friends
You pick me up you brush me off I grin
But all I wanna do is disappear
One day when you fall for me babe
I know it's gonna come and then
I'm not gonna brush you off no way
And I'm not gonna kick you in your shin
Waiting for you to walk by with your friends
You look up at me the lights form
Smile sweet that made me skin
Jump out all that the way you do
It's like no feeling I could express
Oh sitting up here oh this little kid
You look like an angel
I fall so hard inside the idea of you
That's why with you can't say what I mean
Wanna stay but I think I'm getting outta here
I fall so hard inside the idea of you
I stumble falling
Front of you and all your cool friends
You pick me up you brush me off I grin
But you know I wanna disappear
One day when you fall for me girl
You know I know it's gonna come
I'm not gonna brush you off no way
And I'm not gonna pull your hair
I fall so hard inside the idea of you
That's why with you can't say what I mean
Wanna stay but I think I'm getting outta here
I fall so hard inside the idea of you
Oh yeah
It's something
It's a game I play
Inside myself
But you goin'
But you watching me
Knowing til myself oh I playing
Like you're sitting there
And you hold my
Til I fall asleep
And I wake up
And I find out
You're gone gone gone yeah
I fall so hard inside the idea of you
That's why with you can't say what I mean
Wanna stay but I think I'm getting outta here
I fall so hard inside the idea of you
I stumble falling
Front of you and all your cool friends
You pick me up you brush me off I grin
But all I wanna do is disappear
One day when you fall for me babe
I know it's gonna come and then
I'm not gonna brush you off no way
And I'm not gonna kick you in your shin
Lyrics submitted by jarrodw805
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Wanna stay but I think I'm getting outta here"
Here Dave is admitting his pure passion for this girl, who is an "idea"
It almost seems like he wants her more for the "idea" of her, such as maybe her beauty, or how it will never happen. The idea itself drives him, but the girl itself is another matter.
In regards of the girl he says "I fall so hard inside the idea of you
That's why with you can't say what I mean"
then he says with you "
I fall so hard for the idea of you...
Idea being a conception existing in the mind...
It's a dream you want so bad that you dream it into reality...
The reality is LOVE...
SO, you LOVE so hard that reality appears to be a dream.
6/28/08 Nissan Pavillion at Stone Ridge, Bristow, Virginia aka LeRoi's Last Show.
"I stumble falling
In front of you and all your cool friends
You pick me up, you brush me off
I grin
But you know I just wanna disappear
One day when you fall for me girl
And I know that days' gonna come
I'm not gonna brush you off, no way
And I'm not gonna pull your hair"
Awesome. Don't know why that's always affected me like it has, but it just does.
I play this song on repeat when I'm in a good mood. It makes me feel playful, and carefree... Dave, you got me feeling like a kid again.
Cute. :-)
I love everyone's different reactions/interpretations to this song. And more so, I love that there are so many versions of this song out there... I love that Dave sings his songs a little bit differently each and every time he sings them. While it can be incredibly frustrating to the part of me that is addicted to lyrics and wants to make sure that I'm quoting and singing accurate lines in my head, it is VERY clever of him. It's a fun game, attempting to keep up with Mr. Matthews.
This song reminds me a little bit of Third Eye Blind's "I Want You"-- I think it's because I detect an element of playful innocence embedded within the lyrics.
For me, it is the EPITOME of that classic "flustered, 'I don't know what to do' , awkward encounter, taffy stuck and tongue tied feeling that comes with having a gigantic dorky schoolkid crush on someone. Being around them-- especially in the beginning-- you feel yourself feeling like a kid again. A little embarassed perhaps. I seem to be the queen of awkward encounters and exchanging awkward words, so I can relate very much to stumbling "in front of you and all of your cool friends, you pick me up, you brush me off, I grin but you know I want to disappear," as Dave says.
At the same time, I don't like that I get all flustered, so I tell myself I'm going to get past it and that "Well, one day I'm gonna do so much more than look at you."
And let's face it, crushes are fun! At least I think so. They give your mind a happy place to wander, at the least. It sounds silly, but I think that to an extent people forget what it feels like to have a "crush" and be infatuated with a person, and that they get wrapped up in this mindset that they NEED to just BE WITH someone. So then they start to forget about all the little things that play into what attracted them to their someone in the first place. To me, this song capitalizes the dancing around, newfound relationship feeling... the idea (if you will) of someone :-)
LT6 Fenway's the best version I've heard yet. "Just to let y'all know, I love that song!"